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?Ai Weiwei MASK

No will is too small, and no act is too helpless.

- Ai Weiwei 

Ai Weiwei MASK is a project devised to raise funds for COVID-19 humanitarian causes. 

"The COVID-19 pandemic is a humanitarian crisis. It challenges our understanding of the 21st century and warns of dangers ahead. It requires each individual to act, both alone and collectively". - Ai Weiwei 

These face coverings are hand printed with iconic images of Ai Weiwei's work. Produced during the period of quarantine, the masks are the canvas onto which Ai Weiwei prints his message. They are a call to action, a symbol of the citizen-led response to the humanitarian crisis that we are now facing and that contests our understanding of our contemporary reality and forewarns what is to come. The face mask is a representation of an individual action, that when executed collectively has the power to change the course of something larger than ourselves, in this case a pandemic. 

All proceeds benefit the COVID-19 humanitarian and human rights emergency efforts led by Human Rights Watch, Refugees International and M?decins Sans Fronti?res/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The masks are available until June 27 on www.ebay.com/aiweiweimask. 

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Ai Weiwei MASK is produced by Ai Weiwei studio and curated as an independent project by Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator, Asian Art and Senior Advisor, Global Arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 

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Ai Weiwei MASK artworks can be purchased as single works; as series of four; or as a complete set of twenty which includes the artist's iconic Study of Perspective series. Made in the artist's studio in Berlin, each work is silk-screened by hand on cloth face masks. In addition, each package includes a signed artist's statement. The artworks are not recommended for medical use and no liability is assumed if they are used for this purpose. The masks are not washable.

We are pleased to share the voice of Alexandra Munroe, curator of the artistic project, and of the humanitarian organizations to whom the proceeds of the sale will go to in order to support the fight against Coronavirus.

"Ai Weiwei MASK are artworks symbolic of life in the time of COVID-19. To have one is an ethical and creative act to overcome our tired isolation and participate in a collective enterprise of real compassion". - Alexandra Munroe.

"This is a powerful example of art and activism coming together for good. We are honored to partner with Ai Weiwei and eBay for Charity to raise funds for our work on the COVID crisis. With their support, we are able to fight for those most affected by the pandemic - vulnerable children, refugees, and people who live in poverty". - Kenneth Roth (Executive Director, Human Rights Watch).

"For MSF, Ai Weiwei's artistic proposal to turn these masks into a symbol of the humanitarian challenges of the COVID-19 crisis is very relevant and powerful. This project will give people the opportunity to con- tribute with a donation to our COVID-19 medical work. This includes responding to the needs of the communities affected by the disease and their health systems, or respond- ing to the consequences that this pandemic is having and will have on the millions of people we serve in more than 70 countries. We are grateful to Ai Weiwei for having chosen MSF as one of the recipients of the funds". - Dr. Reveka Papadopoulou (President of M?decins Sans Fronti?res/Doctors Without Borders - Operational Center of Geneva.

"The COVID-19 pandemic is a profound test of our common humanity, as it is the world's most vulnerable people-ref- ugees and others who have been forced from their homes-who are at gravest risk. This noble initiative sounds the alarm on this dire threat, and will both amplify and strengthen Refugees International advocacy for human rights and critical assistance to those who are displaced due to persecution, violence, and other injustices". - Eric Schwartz (President, Refugees International).

Thank you for supporting this humanitarian art project by Ai Weiwei.

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Anish Kapoor ''Black Mist, Pagan Gold verso'' 2019, stainless steel and lacquer,
99 x 99 x 11 cm | 38,98 x 38,98 x 4,33 in. Photo by: Dave Morgan, London

 ?ABU DHABI ART

VIRTUAL ART FAIR 2020 

Explore our selection of works displayed in Abu Dhabi Art Fair''s virtual booths for their interactive edition here:

VIP Preview: November 17th and 18th 2020

Public days: November 19th to 26th, 2020

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 CHINESE ARTISTS AND 

THE CHARM OF MATTER

Online Viewing Room Now Open

QIU ZHIJIE 'Map of China - Arabia' 2019, ink on paper, 370 x 880 cm, 145,66 x 346,45 in. Photo: Yang Hao

"Waste Not: For an everyday object to become a work of art, it is necessary for it to embody meaning, so even the most common things and image could be attributed with artistic value." - Wu Hong

Humble everyday things, biographically significant items and historically representative images and objects are all to be found in the works of this selection of Chinese artists. Whether its repurposing materials or readopting traditional techniques, each action and component in the making of these works are deliberate and considered; they tell a story, a story of a population, an individual or society. The materials, often humble in their beginnings, give rise to much larger concepts like; hope for the coexistence of different people, the symbiotic relationship between communities and nature, man's connection to landscape in order to understand his purpose in his craft and our place in society. 

This viewing room demonstrates the diversity and richness to be found in the work of contemporary Chinese artists such as Chen Zhen, Qiu Zhijie, Gu Dexin, Zhuang Hui, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Kan Xuan and Cai Guo-Qiang.

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Courtesy: the artist and GALLERIA CONTINUA

ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH

OVR 2020 

Discover our selection of works in the OVR

''A GLANCE ON LATIN AMERICA''

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VIP Preview:

December 2nd 2020 10am ET / 4pm CET / 11pm CST

to December 4th 10am ET / 4pm CET / 11pm CST

Public days:

December 4th 2020 10am ET / 4pm CET / 11pm CST

to December 6th 2020 00am ET / 6am CET / 1pm CST

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Yoan Capote. Photo by: OKNO studio

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Art Basel Miami Beach Online Events 

Yoan Capote

Moving the viewer from passive observation to intellectual reaction

A conversation with Niurma P?rez

December 2nd

2pm ET / 20pm CET / 3am CST

Live @GalleriaContinua 

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 HANS OP DE BEECK 

 'The Horseman and other stories'  

 opening: 3 July 2020 | 7 pm

HANS OP DE BEECK 'The Horseman' 2020, polyester, steel, polyamide, brass, coating, 194 x 92 x 243 cm, 76,38 x 36,22 x 95,66 in.
Photo: Studio Hans Op de Beeck

"I generally try to evoke an artificial world, a condensed version of reality that says something about us as human beings and that often awkwardly stages our life, our relationship to others, our environment and our mortality (...) Beyond the support I use, I hope my works are like a consoling hand on the shoulder, a warm hug and a mental oasis for peace and tranquility." 

Hans Op de Beeck

Hans Op de Beeck presents a series of new works in this online presentation of sculptures and two large black and white watercolor paintings. For the most part human figures, these are not portraits of the sitter but stories to be told, characters that alone or in dialogue with another being, tell a collective story. The men and women, of different social circumstances and ages, are portrayed in relaxed positions; they evoke closeness and sharing, providing a starting point for thinking about identity, the struggle of existence, the future and the ubiquitous human pursuit for hope and peace. 

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Pascale Marthine Tayou, CHALK CH, 2015 (detail)

Galleria Continua is pleased announce its NEW Art Basel Online Viewing Room. You can now find fifteen different works especially dedicated to the public days access. 

You can access Galleria Continua''s Online Viewing Room here.

Celebrating thirty years this year, Galleria Continua remains faithful to the belief that art is a field of relations and encounters in continuous evolution. Continua is committed to making art through shared moments of exchange that are capable of taking over space, time and human thought, no matter how challenging it might be. Making Art means sharing a path together, in which every step is a celebration of what has been done and the energy to look forward.

Our NEW Viewing Room will feature, among others, Juan Araujo, Kader Attia, Daniel Buren, Yoan Capote, Loris Cecchini, Carlos Garaicoa, Shilpa Gupta, Carsten H?ller, Anish Kapoor, Jorge Macchi, Hans Op de Beeck, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Qiu Zhijie, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Nari Ward.

Art Basel's Online Viewing Rooms will stay open through June 26, 1pm CET / 7am ET / 7pm HKT. 

See the works here: Galleria-Continua-The-Joy-of-Art.pdf

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The 2000's generation in Brazil

Online Viewing Room Now Open

JONATHAS DE ANDRADE 'Eu, mesti?o / Me, mestizo Project' 2017, UV print on Falconboard 16 mm, variable dimensions. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio

Brazil has an incomparable geographical vastness, societal diversity and cultural output that has influenced the world over. For many, Brazil is a country full of intrigue; we often encounter its art and music but are not always offered the opportunity to get to know its intricate complexities.

This viewing room introduces you to a generation of artists that like the other cultural exports of the country, are strong, vibrant and immensely multifaceted. The Gera??o 2000 is the name often used in Brazil for defining the 2000s and the culture and art that came from that period. The artists who produced works from the 2000s onwards include Jonathas De Andrade, Marcelo Cidade and Andr? Komatsu. These are artists that have absorbed the societal context they grew up in into their work, subsequently presenting and examining a modern, utopian society while managing to create a space for many different voices, telling their stories. The careful materiality of Marcelo Cidade's works, the varying images of humanity Jonathas De Andrade presents to us or Andr? Komatsu's constructive use of space are all an opportunity to explore previously untold narratives.

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  6th edition XXL Online 

 ANISH KAPOOR 

 presents 

'Descension'

ANISH KAPOOR 'Descension' 2015, Steel, water, motor, 500 x 500 cm, 196,8 x 196,8 in.
Installation view at Galleria Continua / San Gimignano. Photo: Ela Bialkowska

Galleria Continua is delighted to present the 6th edition of Continua XXL Online with Anish Kapoor's 2015 work ''Descension'', a seemingly impossible to implicate feat of engineering and manipulation of the environment - creating an autonomous, independently moving, figurative dervish of water that presents before us a void that engages in a symbiotic exchange between emptiness and creation. Empty space that represents the unimaginable and dark but also has the ability to create human connection and shared experience.

The void, a notion explored constantly in Anish Kapoor's artistic practice, is investigated here through a dynamic recall to mythological and culturally significant figures - Plato's cave which upholds a certain reality that actually is indicative of much more but that goes unseen, the object after Psychoanalysis and how it has found itself between being and non-being, and Dante's voyage into Inferno, where what was predicted as vacant and horrific was full of manifestations of human emotional, physical and spiritual experience.

Continua XXL Online is an exclusive presentation of some of our artists' biggest projects. Featuring previously unseen content from Galleria Continua and artists as well as in depth information and insight into production, Continua XXL Online becomes a comprehensive experience in understanding large installations and artworks.

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Peinture acrylique blanche sur tissu blanc et rouge / Le Reste Photo by: Ela Bialkowska

?Art Basel OVR:20c Online Viewing Room

Galleria Continua is pleased to participate in Art Basel''s Online Viewing Room with a selection of works by Daniel Buren. 

The 6 works chosen pay tribute to the artist and his activity during a decades-long career.

VIP Preview - from October 28th, 11am CET / 10am GMT / 6pm HKT / 6am ET

Public Days - from October 30th, 11am CET / 10am GMT / 6pm HKT / 6am ET 

to October 31st, 11pm CET / 10pm GMT / 6am HKT / 6pm ET

You will be able to access Galleria Continua''s Online Viewing Room here.

Art Basel OVR:20c live event with Daniel Buren

Save the date: October 29th 15:00 CET

Live interview on Instagram with Daniel Buren - From Paris to San Gimignano and back

a conversation between the artist himself, Lorenzo Fiaschi and Alice Fontanelli.

You can access Galleria Continua''s Art Basel live event here.

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Una boccata d'arte

20 artisti 20 borghi 20 regioni

Opening: 12-13 September 2020

A Fondazione Elpis project

in collaboration with Galleria Continua

12.9 - 11.10.2020

Una boccata d'arte is a contemporary, extensive, and unifying art project, created by the Fondazione Elpis in collaboration with Galleria Continua. With the intention of becoming a source of optimism and starting a push towards cultural, touristic and economic recovery, it aims to create an opportunity for encounters between contemporary art and the historical and artistic beauty of twenty villages in Italy. In the current context of new beginnings and the resumption of cultural activity, with Una boccata d'arte, the Fondazione Elpis wishes to make a significant contribution in supporting contemporary art and Italian heritage.

In September, the chosen villages will host twenty site-specific contemporary art interventions, the majority of which will be placed outdoors, by both emerging and established Italian artists invited by the Fondazione Elpis and Galleria Continua. Twenty artists for twenty villages, in all twenty regions of Italy. 

For the first edition of Una boccata d'arte the inauguration will take place on the weekend of 12 and 13 September at the same time in all the selected locations. The works will be on show for a month and they provide an opportunity to take part in safe outdoor encounters for art loves, collectors and sector professionals, encouraging local tourism and inspiring curiosity in those who love to discover their local area. 

The artists and villages

. Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Abruzzo, province of L'Aquila, the artists Antonello Ghezzi (Nadia Antonello, Cittadella, 1985 and Paolo Ghezzi, Bologna, 1980).

. Pisticci, Basilicata, province of Matera, the artist Sabrina Mezzaqui (Bologna, 1964).

. Soverato Vecchia, Calabria, province of Catanzaro, the artist Matteo Nasini (Rome, 1976).

. Sant'Agata de'' Goti, Campania, province of Benevento, the artists Ornaghi & Prestinari (Valentina Ornaghi, Milan, 1986 and Claudio Prestinari, Milan, 1984).

. Grizzana Morandi, Emilia-Romagna, province of Bologna, the artist Massimo Uberti (Brescia, 1966).

. Sutrio, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, province of Udine, the artist Sabrina Melis (Milan, 1986).

. Ronciglione, Lazio, province of Viterbo, the artist Marta Spagnoli (Verona, 1994).

. Cervo, Liguria, province of Imperia, the artist Elena Mazzi (Reggio Emilia, 1984).

. Castellaro Lagusello, Lombardy, province of Mantua, the artist Clarissa Baldassarri (Civitanova Marche, 1994).

. Acquaviva Picena, Marche, province of Ascoli Piceno, the artist Matteo Fato (Pescara, 1979).

. Sepino, Molise, province of Campobasso, the artist Francesco Pozzato (Vicenza, 1992).

. Orta San Giulio, Piedmont, province of Novara, the artist Paolo Brambilla (Lecco, 1990).

. Presicce - Acquarica, Puglia, province of Lecce, the artist Claudia Losi (Piacenza, 1971).

. San Pantaleo, Sardinia, province of Sassari, the artist Giovanni Ozzola (Florence, 1982).

. Ferla, Sicily, province of Syracuse, the artists Marta De Pascalis (Rome, 1987) and Filippo Vogliazzo (Milan, 1987).

. Volterra, Tuscany, province of Pisa, the artist Marinella Senatore (Cava de' Tirreni, 1977).

. Mezzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, province of Trento, the artist Luca Pozzi (Milan, 1983).

. Massa Martana, Umbria, province of Perugia, the artist Arcangelo Sassolino (Vicenza, 1967).

. Avise, Aosta Valley, province of Aosta, the artist Alice Visentin (Cirie`, 1993).

. Borgo Valbelluna, Veneto, province of Belluno, the artist Bekhbaatar Enkhtur (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 1994). 

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GALLERIA CONTINUA presents our Artists' events for June-July 2020. 

PASCALE MARTHINE TAYOU 'Cuba Mi Amor' Courtesy: the artist and GALLERIA CONTINUA. Copyright Line: ? ADAGP, Paris

'CUBA MI AMOR' 

Alejandro Campins / Ivan Capote / Yoan Capote / Elizabet Cervi?o / Carlos Garaicoa / Osvaldo Gonz?lez / Luis L?pez-Ch?vez / Jos? Mes?as / Susana Pilar / Pascale Marthine Tayou / Jos? Yaque 

during Paris Gallery Weekend

Galerie Mitterand 

79 Rue du Temple, Paris, France

02/07/2020 - 29/07/2020

Galleria Continua participates in Paris Gallery Weekend, a weekend which showcases the best of galleries in and around the city, with the exhibition Cuba Mi Amor, presenting Cuban and international artists in relationship to the fascinating island state. 

exhbition view: ''Fantastic Utopias''. Photo: Andrea Rossetti

'Fantastic Utopias' 

group exhibition

Ala Scaligera, Rocca di Angera (VA), Italy

Curated by Ilaria Bonacossa 

In collaboration with Galleria Continua

Artists: Jonathas De Andrade, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Carlos Garaicoa, Antony Gormley, Shilpa Gupta, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Zhanna Kadyrova, Sabrina Mezzaqui, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Ornaghi & Prestinari, Kiki Smith, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Ai Weiwei, Chen Zhen.

18/05/2020 - 27/09/2020

www.isoleborromee.it/eventimostre/fantastic-utopias/

In the spaces of the Ala Scaligera, the works of 15 international artists give life in their diversity to unexpected and perhaps magical images, simultaneously seductive and frightening, capable of taking us to alternative universes far from what's possible.

DANIEL BUREN Photo-souvenir: ''Confin?es: trois grilles color?es translucides' 2020, metal, Plexiglas, translucid coloured vinyls, black and white adhesive stripes 8,7 cm large. Galleria Continua, P?kin, 2020, work in situ, ?DB-ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Yang Hao

DANIEL BUREN

special project

''Confine?es: trois grilles colore?es translucides''

GALLERIA CONTINUA / BEIJING

China

21/05/2020 - 20/08/2020

www.galleriacontinua.com/special-projects

Daniel Buren is well-known for his "in situ" works that transform public spaces and environments, the use of them and also their perception, through stripes, colour and mirrors. At Galleria Continua Beijing, this is the first work the visitor sees when approaching the gallery, it consists of the segmentation of the front wall into six parts and includes his signature stripes, colours and geometric shapes

CARLOS GARAICOA 'Modelo C-VI / Model C-VI' 2020, Graphite drawing on Guarro paper 240 gr, 50 x 70 cm, 19,68 x 27,55 in. Photo: Oak Taylor-Smith

CARLOS GARAICOA ''L?neas Ocultas''

online exhibition

from 29 May 2020

''Hidden, troubled, unusual, devilish, distant, lonely, unreachable, dangerous, disproportionate... All adjectives to name an extreme way of life, one out of the ordinary, or perhaps a new desire and becoming of Man, sheltered today in his loneliness. In this series of drawings, I try to reflect on the extreme of life in solitude, and how the desire to live in isolation can overcome and postpone our customary desire for social connection. They are architectures that are born from the absolute emptiness of the City, from what this desolation represents (its Ruin), and from the denial of its modern essence as it was conceived and developed in the West.''

www.galleriacontinua.com/exhibitions-online

SUN YUAN & PENG YU 'Can't help my self' 2016-2019, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, artists invited to the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia ''May You Live In Interesting Times". Courtesy: the artists, GALLERIA CONTINUA, ARARIO Gallery, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Collection. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio

SUN YUAN & PENG YU present ''CAN''T HELP MYSELF''

3? EDITION XXL ONLINE

''XXL Online'' is a digital initiative that celebrates Galleria Continua artists'' largest works and installations that have been conceived for our big spaces or special events. Entering into a large art installation is like entering into another world. The artist, aware of this, uses the scale of the medium to convey an important and life-changing message as well as a memorable encounter. This viewing room looks at some of the biggest and best moments from our artists with previously unseen content that includes specially selected insights and new information.

www.galleriacontinua.com/viewing-room-gallery-xxl

GU DEXIN '2007-01-13' 2007. Installation, bananas, cast iron, marble, variable dimensions. Photo: Ela Bialkowska

'CHINESE ARTISTS AND THE CHARM OF MATTER'

ONLINE VIEWING ROOM

Take a ''walk'' through our selection of available works.

This is the third of a series of viewing rooms that will focus on the four corners of the world and the wonderful artists that come from them. The first one was about Cuba, the second one about Brazil and now we go to China.

It's an opportunity to explore, through art, the places that many Continua artists come from and also understand the places themselves. 

www.galleriacontinua.com/viewing-room

QIU ZHIJIE 'Map of China - Arabia' 2019. Photo: Sun Shi

QIU ZHIJIE

solo show

''Colorful Lantern Scroll Project''

SKP Rendez-Vous

Beijing, China

29/05/2020 - 30/06/2020

Some of Qiu Zhijie's work is presented for the opening of SKP Rendez-Vous, a library located on the fifth floor of the popular Beijing store; this space aims to host afternoon event programmes for culture and literature.

OSVALDO GONZ?LEZ 'Camino' 2019. Photo: Oscar Monsalve. Courtesy: NC-Arte

OSVALDO GONZ?LEZ 

solo show

'?MBAR' 

NC-arte 

Bogot?, Colombia 

14/03/2020 - 30/08/2020

www.nc-arte.org

Osvaldo Gonz?lez presents a solo show in NC-arte, a cultural and education space from the Neme Foundation whose principal aim is to contribute to the diffusion of visual arts in Colombia. Osvaldo Gonz?lez is an artist who has been known to explore, through painting, installations and sculpture, his fascination with spaces, his pieces becoming like landscapes or deconstructions of man's immediate surrounding environment.

BERLINDE DE BRUYCKERE 'Aletheia, on-vergeten' 2019, wax, wood, iron, salt, papier mach?, epoxy. Exhibition view 'ALETHEIA' Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, 2019. Photo: Mirjam Devriendt.

BERLINDE DE BRUYCKERE

solo show

'ALETHEIA'

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo 

Via Modane 16, Torino, Italy 

01/11/2019 - 12/07/2020

fsrr.org/mostre/aletheia

Curated by Irene Calderoni, Aletheia, the solo show of Berlinde De Bruyckere at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo continues until 12th July. A specific body of works conceived for this exhibition are placed throughout the whole exhibition space. They offer a narrative to be navigated around these monumental sculptures that individually contribute to a spatial and conceptual story-telling.

Susana Pilar 'Silence' Courtesy: the artist

SUSANA PILAR

online group exhibition

'Host and Hostility'

https://hostandhostility.com

Susana Pilar presents her work "Silencio" in this online exhibition that hosts 12 artists sharing their works virtually in times of social distancing. The exhibition, from Peter und Irene Ludwig Stiftung and the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, aims to start a dialogue about the accessibility of different worlds and contexts.

DANIEL BUREN Photo-souvenir : 'Calligraphies' permanent in situ works, Banqiao Station, Taipei, 2012-2020. ? DB-ADAGP Paris 

DANIEL BUREN

'Calligraphies'

permanent in situ works

Banqiao Station

Taipei, Taiwan

In this passenger hub in the Taipei metro network permanent in situ works by Daniel Buren make up part of the dynamic architecture of the station. The work consists of his trademark stripes in eight colours as well as monochrome; the walls, platforms and ceiling are enveloped, a perpetuation of the artist's interventions' aim to transform our shared spaces.

CARLOS GARAICOA 'En Construcci?n (V)' 2012

CARLOS GARAICOA

group exhibition

'? toi appartient le regard et (...) la liaison infinie entre les choses' / 'WHO IS GAZING ?'

Mus?e du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

Paris, France

30/06/2020 - 01/11/2020

www.quaibranly.fr/en

Mus?e du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac invites 26 artists from around the world to a resolutely contemporary exhibition focused on different relationships with the photographic and filmic image. Themes around landscape and territory are presented by Carlos Garaicoa's contribution to the group show.

ORNAGHI & PRESTINARI 'Caduta' 2020. Photo: Ornaghi & Prestinari

ORNAGHI & PRESTINARI

group exhibition

'Places to be'

Fondation d''entreprise Martell

16 avenue Paul Firino Martell

Cognac, France

25/06/2020 - 02/01/2022

www.fondationdentreprisemartell.com

Ornaghi & Prestinari present "The bedroom" for this group show which aims to bring together French and international designers to create a unique living space and therefore re-propose design as an essential contribution to our everyday lives with functionary value. "The bedroom" is the union between two single beds which help present the singular person as united with the Other, but impeded in their relationship. 

JONATHAS DE ANDRADE 'Fome de Resist?ncia - Mulheres Kayap? Menkragnoti (da s?rie Infind?vel Mapa da Fome) / Hunger of Resistance - Kayap? Menkragnoti Women (from the series Endless Hunger Map)' 2020

JONATHAS DE ANDRADE

group exhibition

'Global(e) Resistance'

Centre Pompidou

Paris, France

24/06/2020 - 26/10/2020

www.centrepompidou.fr

More than 60 artists come together for this group exhibition. Hailing from places like South Africa, Middle East, Asia and Latin America, their works exude and present contemporary manifestations of resistance. This exhibition explores resistance, through social, artistic or political mediums and how it's taken by many artists and translated into their work, often a result of surrounding circumstances and larger socio-historical happenings like the end of colonization. 

ZHANNA KADYROVA 'Animalier' 2019

ZHANNA KADYROVA

'Crack Up Crack Down'

Graphic biennale travelling to Warsaw 

Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Jazd?w 2, Warszawa, Poland

19/06/2020 - 11/10/2020

u-jazdowski.pl/en

The exhibition showcases both historical and contemporary works, including activist interventions, satirical magazines, and academic elaborations, put together by the art collective Slavs and Tatars, it's about the power and emotions invoked by satire.

SUN YUAN & PENG YU 'Can't help my self' 2016-2019, video, 5'31'', Video by: Xinyi Li, Support: Digital. Courtesy: the artists and GALLERIA CONTINUA

ARCANGELO SASSOLINO,

SUN YUAN & PENG YU

group exhibition

'GOLEM'

MUSEUM ON THE SEAM

4 Heil Handassa St.

Jerusalem, Israel

18/06/2020 - 31/10/2020

www.mots.org.il/exhibitions

This exhibition explores the relationship between humankind and man-made machines. Sun Yuan & Peng Yu present the, by now, world-famous work "Can't Help Myself" and Arcangelo Sassolino presents "Figurante", a piece which uses the functionality of industrial machine to manipulate the future of the bone that finds itself between a set of mechanized jaws.

KAN XUAN 'Kanxuan! Ai!' 1999

KAN XUAN

group exhibition

'Embodied Mirror: Performances in Chinese Video Art'

Curator:Yang Beichen

New Century Art Foundation

Beijing, China

22/05/2020 - 30/08/2020 

www.ncartfoundation.org

This exhibition studies the role of video art and performance in Chinese contemporary art. The vision is that of video art not as a stage for performance but as a reflection on the world around us. 

KAN XUAN 'One by One' 2003

KAN XUAN

''Feminine(s). Visualities, Actions and Affections''

12th Mercosul Biennial

the Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul,

the Memorial do Rio Grande do Sul and the Santander Cultural

Porto Alegre, Brazil

16/04/2020 - 05/07/2020 

www.fundacaobienal.art.br

The Biennial aims to emphasise the work of women and non-binary artists and intends to unite radical points of view, approaching them from all kinds of perspectives by inviting artists from all over the world and Latin America. The works come from artists who commit themselves to resisting various forms of violence and gender discrimination as well as advocating for a less oppressive social order.

KADER ATTIA 'Narciso' 2012. Photo: Michele Alberto Sereni

KADER ATTIA

group exhibition

'Mythologies - The Beginning and End of Civilizations'

ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum

Aros All? 2

Aarhus C, Denmark

04/04/2020 - 18/10/2020

www.aros.dk/en/art

This exhibition presents works from artists that tackle themes such as faith, hope, crises and revolution with particular emphasis on how mythologies have shaped contemporary society.

YOAN CAPOTE 'Isla (persistencia)' 2020. Photo: Nestor Kim

IV?N CAPOTE, YOAN CAPOTE, SUSANA PILAR

group exhibition

'Liebesgr??e aus Havanna: Zeitgenossische kubanische Kunst im internationalen Kontext' (Saludos desde La Habana. Arte cubano contempor?neo en el contexto internacional)

Art and Culture Foundation Opelvillen Riisselsheim

Germany 

12/02/2020 - 20/09/2020

www.opelvillen.de

The exhibition allows for a deeper insight into the complex situation of contemporary art in the Caribbean island state of Cuba.

SHILPA GUPTA '1:2138' 2017. Photo: Tom Callemin

SHILPA GUPTA

group exhibition 

'MEASURE YOUR EXISTENCE'

Curated by Christine Starkman

Rubin Museum of Art

New York, USA

07/02/2020 - 10/08/2020

rubinmuseum.org

"Measure Your Existence" works upon the Buddhist concept of impermanence through works from 6 artists who study collateral themes around the concept by creating opportunities for reflection and thought on survival, memory, history and disappearance in relation to the individual and society.

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  7th edition XXL Online 

 DANIEL BUREN 

 presents 

'Una cosa tira l''altra'

Photo-souvenir: DANIEL BUREN 'Una cosa tira l''altra' 2015, work in situ, scaffolding, white matt adhesive vinyl large 8,7 cm on green painted wood, work space dimension. Galleria Continua / San Gimignano. Photo: Ela Bialkowska

Galleria Continua is pleased to present a new edition of the viewing room Continua XXL Online with Daniel Buren's work "Una cosa tira l''altra" a work in situ from 2015 that filled the stalls area of Galleria Continua, San Gimignano.

The work, made from scaffolding and delineated by Daniel Buren's signature adhesive stripes, is a structure that brings the visitor where they've never been before, voluminously occupying both high and low space, offering new vantage points and perspectives and demonstrating Daniel Buren's ability to create new experiences and exchanges between art and people.

Continua XXL Online is an exclusive presentation of some of our artists' biggest projects. Featuring previously unseen content from Galleria Continua and artists as well as in depth information and insight into production, Continua XXL Online becomes a comprehensive experience in understanding large installations and artworks.

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COMING SOON

DANIEL BUREN

''Fuori tempo, a perdita d'occhio''

Galleria Continua / San Gimignano

Opening: 26 September 2020

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 ?WESTBUND Art & Design

SHANGHAI 2020 

We are happy to announce our participation to Westbund Art & Design in Shanghai with works by Antony Gormley, Tobias Rehberger, Anish Kapoor, Carsten H?ller, Qiu Zhijie, JR and Giovanni Ozzola among many others.

VIP Preview: November 11th, 2020

Public days: November 12th to 15th, 2020

You can find us at hall A booth 1F

West Bund Art Center, 2555 Long Teng Avenue,

Xuhui District, Shanghai

Courtesy: the artist and GALLERIA CONTINUA

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GALLERIA CONTINUA presents our Artists' events for October 2020.

AI WEIWEI 'CIRCA 20:20'

AI WEIWEI

'CIRCA 20:20'

Piccadilly Circus

London, UK

01/10/2020 - 31/10/2020

The CIRCA programme inaugurates with a new commission by celebrated artist Ai Weiwei on the iconic Piccadilly Circus screen.

''The project begins from the year I was born through to the current, unceasing pandemic threaten- ing the human condition globally. All visual material is produced by my studio. There will be a selection of quotes taken from my own writing, as well as from other writers and poets. We will provide a visual feast with a strong message for the public.''

- Ai Weiwei

YOAN CAPOTE 'Autorretrato (estudio de resistencia' 2019 (detail). Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio

''CUBA TALKS''

group exhibition

La Commanderie de Peyrassol

RN7 - 83340 Flassans-sur-Issole, France

in collaboration with Galleria Continua

03/10/2020 - 26/12/2020

https://www.peyrassol.com/

Inspired by the book "Cuba Talks" by Jer?me Sans and Laura Salas Redondo, the exhibition will present the extremely lively Cuban contemporary art scene through the works of Alejandro Campins, Iv?n Capote, Yoan Capote, Elizabet Cervi?o, Carlos Garaicoa, Osvaldo Gonz?lez, Luis L?pez-Ch?vez, Jos? Mes?as, Susana Pilar, Jos? Yaque.

NEDKO SOLAKOV 'A Man Searching for.' 2020

NEDKO SOLAKOV

group exhibition

'100 Drawings from Now'

curated by Claire Gilman, Rosario G?iraldes and Laura Hoptman

The Drawing Center

New York, USA

07/10/2020 - 17/01/2021

https://drawingcenter.org/exhibitions/100-drawings-from-now

'100 Drawings from Now' provides a snapshot of artistic production in uncertain and unsettling times resulting from the various health and economic crises we have gone through in this last year. An international group of artists show their drawings made since the start of this year, 2020, highlighting many recogniseable states of being, moods and emotions.

KIKI SMITH 'Compass' 2017. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio

KIKI SMITH

solo show

'Hearing You with My Eyes'

curated by Laurence Schmidlin

Muse?e cantonal des Beaux-Arts

Place de la Gare 16

Lausanne, Switzerland

09/10/2020 - 10/01/2021

https://www.mcba.ch/expositions/kiki-smith/

Almost 100 works make up Kiki Smith's solo show which goes through 40 years of the artist's career. In this exhibition a central theme is explored: sensorial perception. These works, as well as this, explore the human body, its function, its symbolic meaning, its social status and its many representations.

CARLOS GARAICOA 'La palabra transformada' 2009. Photo: Oak Taylor-Smith

CARLOS GARAICOA, CARSTEN H?LLER

group exhibition

'Architecture into Art: a Dialogue'

Fundaci?n Bot?n

Galer?a 2

Muelle de Albareda s/n

Santander, Spain

10/10/2020 - 14/03/2021

https://www.centrobotin.org/en/exposicion/arte-y-arquitectura-un-dialogo/

LEILA ALAOUI 'No Pasara' 2008. Courtesy: Fondation Leila Alaoui & GALLERIA CONTINUA

LEILA ALAOUI

solo show

'Rite of Passage'

Somerset House

London, UK

11/10/2020 - 28/02/2021

https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/leila-alaoui-rite-passage

The first major UK retrospective of works by Leila Alaoui showcases her photography, capturing subjects from the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern landscape as well as video works.

CHEN ZHEN 'Fu Dao / Fu Dao, Upside-down Buddha / Arrival at Good Fortune' 1997 Installation view, CCA - Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan, 1997 ? ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Chen Zhen.

CHEN ZHEN

solo show

'Short-circuits'

curated by Vicente Todol?

Pirelli HangarBicocca

Milano, Italy

15/10/2020 - 21/02/2021

https://pirellihangarbicocca.org/en/exhibition/chen-zhen/

This solo show is an intense and explosive dive into Chen Zhen's career. Some of his most recogniseable and iconic works are on display in the huge spaces of Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan. They not only present his wish to find a visual synergy but also his desire to integrate the aesthetic dimension of his homeland and his story into the places he encountered. 

Credit: Art Action Change

ILYA & EMILIA KABAKOV,

MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO

Manifesta 13

Marseille, France

Infinite Village, part of Manifesta 13 | Les Parall?les du Sud

Concept by: Cora Von Zezchwitz & Tilman

Artistic Direction: Francisca Viudes

16/10/2020 - 30/11/2020

https://manifesta13.org/projects/infinite-village/

Taking place in two different venues: the 109 and the Windsor Hotel, the 'Infinite Village' is a social, collective and architectural sculpture that looks to incite the idea of commonality by coming to cities in various forms and offering activities to be shared with residents and international guests alike.  

ORNAGHI & PRESTINARI 'Disegno di studio per Tre Vani' 2020

ORNAGHI & PRESTINARI

solo show

'Tre Vani'

curated by Jessica Bianchera

Spazio Cordis

preview: 17 October 2020 | 11am

Via Archimede 8, Molle, VR, Italy

opening: 17 October 2020 | 6pm

Via Andrea Doria 21A, Verona, VR, Italy

17/10/2020 - 28/11/2020

https://spaziocordis.com/

Ornaghi & Prestinari present 'Tre Vani' a solo show consisting of new works that have been conceived with the artists' usual attention and sensibility for material, with some works using Black Marquinia Marble and others having been made in collaboration with an artisanal natural stone manufacturer.

SHILPA GUPTA 'A Liquid, the Mouth Froze' 2018. Installation view YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku SHILPA GUPTA FOR, IN YOUR TONGUE, I CAN NOT FIT. SOLO EXHIBITION. Photo: Pat Verbruggen

SHILPA GUPTA

group exhibition

'Voice Over'

curated by Maayan Sheleff 

Bonnefantenmuseum

Maastricht, The Netherlands

20/10/2020 - 28/02/2021

https://www.bonnefanten.nl/nl/tentoonstellingen/voice-over

A group show curated by Maayan Sheleff that explores the power of the human voice, taking into account its many different forms, sources and powers from all over the world and from many different societal groups. The artists study how the human voice is capable in overcoming preconceived restrictions and subverting both physical and metaphorical borders.

SERSE 'Qui tutto e' aperto. Fogli d'Acqua' exhibition view Galleria Continua, Roma. Photo: Giovanni De Angelis

SERSE

Talk

'DISEGNI APERTI'

Serse in conversation with Costantino d'Orazio

The St. Regis Rome

Via Vittorio E. Orlando 3, Roma

27 October 2020 | h. 18

For reservation please contact: roma@galleriacontinua.com

Serse and Costantino d'Orazio, art historian, writer and curator will talk about drawing at Galleria Continua Roma's The St. Regis Rome location.

ZHANNA KADYROVA 'Second Hand' 2019. Photo: R?mi Lavalle

ZHANNA KADYROVA

group exhibition

'WBS70 f?nfzig Jahre danach 1970-2020'

Kunst.off Plattenbau

Kunsthaus Raskolnikow

Dresden, Germany

30/10/2020 - 18/12/2020

http://kunstoffplattenbau.de/

The Ukrainian artist, Zhanna Kadyrova, known for her work in reusing ceramic tiles, presents photographs and installation in this group exhibition which examines the subject of industrial housing in the pre-1990 era, promoting an exchange between artists from different countries and seeing what discourse emerges from artists who have experience in, what is now today, Western Europe and the former Eastern Bloc.

SISLEJ XHAFA 'Tr?ndafili i bardh?' 2020, bronze. Photo Lorent Muceku.

SISLEJ XHAFA

permanent work 

'TR?NDAFILI I BARDH?'

commissioned by Municipality of Prishtin?, Kosovo

25/09/2020

The municipality of Prishtina presents the first work of contemporary art to be installed specifically in the city, by Sislej Xhafa the work is entitled "White Rose". It addresses the unity, diversity and complexity of the human condition and how our world can simultaneously display irony and reality.

MARGHERITA MORGANTIN 'CAMPO 1 SOPRA LA MONTAGNA' inizio del progetto V.I.P = Violation of the Pauli exclusion principle SOTTO LA MONTAGNA, SOPRA LA MONTAGNA Campo Imperatore, Parco nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga Settembre 2020 Photo M.M.

MARGHERITA MORGANTIN

'VIP = Violation of the Pauli exclusion principle'

Winner of the 8th edition of the Italian Council, the program aimed at supporting Italian contemporary art in the world promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity (DGCC) of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (MiBACT) 

29/08/2020 - 15/07/2021

www.xing.it/event/456/vip_violation_of_the_pauli_exclusion_principle

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 CARLOS GARAICOA 

 'Li?neas Ocultas'  

 opening: 29 May 2020 | 12 noon 

CARLOS GARAICOA in the process of drawing 'Modelo C-X / Model C-X' April-May, 2020. Photo: Oak Taylor-Smith

Galleria Continua is pleased to present the online exhibition, L?neas Ocultas, by Carlos Garaicoa.

"Hidden, troubled, unusual, devilish, distant, lonely, unreachable, dangerous, disproportionate... All adjectives to name an extreme way of life, one out of the ordinary, or perhaps a new desire and becoming of Man, sheltered today in his loneliness."

Carlos Garaicoa. Madrid, May 13, 2020

Carlos Garaicoa presents a series of previously unseen works, produced during this period of quarantine, that confront the actual global situation through architectures that come from a perception of the new found urban reality that many of the world's citizens are now living in. These architectures seem aesthetically familiar, as if we have come across them in our everyday lives before, as if we have walked amongst, above or over them. These works explore how the nature of the city as a space for social encounter has been changed due to the crisis it finds itself in, emphasizing man's dependency on these social and meeting spaces which have now been demonized and rendered useless. Garaicoa presents these spaces not only as physical frameworks for citizens but also as psychological expanses in which doubts and fears exert themselves. The drawings invite us to see our potential as a human race, our ability to change how we live and our influence and role in our own fate.

The exhibition is accompanied by the text, "The fleeting return", by Iv?n de la Nuez. 

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Available as an extended reality (XR) presentation of works via ''Vortic Collect'' app

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#ITWASTHEYEAR

Follia Continua ! - The 25 YEARS of GALLERIA CONTINUA, Le CENTQUATRE-PARIS, 2015

It Was The Year is the new way to learn more about our history and our artists that have accompanied us during this Follia Continua!

This exclusive content will be available twice a week on our social media channels where we will select a year from Galleria Continua and Associazione Arte Continua's 30 year history, giving you an in depth visual and textual insight into an artist, an artwork, a moment and a memory. 

Starting this Sunday with Panamarenko in 1996, the Belgian artist who's imaginative and unusual point of view often developed into fantastical creations and blurred the lines between artist, scientist, inventor and great thinker, ''It Was The Year'' offers special content to get to know our artists, projects and artworks like never before. 

We met Panamarenko in 1994 in Antwerp Belgium, an artist, engineer, physicist, inventor and visionary, an extraordinary and unclassifiable figure in the panorama of contemporary art, who in 1996 exhibited his work in San Gimignano: an amazing journey inside a submarine through cosmic spaces.

START YOUR JOURNEY

#ITWASTHEYEAR   #CONTINUA1994   #CONTINUA1996

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EXPLORE SPOTLIGHT

UNDER 5000 EURO

Now Available Online

Our new shop area is now available online with a selection of some of our artist's small but very special pieces. All the works have been carefully selected with you in mind; they are works to be admired, loved and placed wherever you please.

Offering a spotlight on the artistic practice of artists like Ai Weiwei, Marcelo Cidade, Jonathas De Andrade, Shilpa Gupta, Andr? Komatsu, Giovanni Ozzola, Manuela Sedmach, Serse, Nedko Solakov, Marta Spagnoli, Jos? Antonio Su?rez Londo?o and Nari Ward with etchings, prints, drawings, collage, paintings, digital prints and photographs, our shop will be updated with works from our roster of artists with new items being added periodically, giving you the opportunity to bring art into your everyday life.

EXPLORE SPOTLIGHT UNDER 5000 EURO

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 ?TEFAF ONLINE - NEW YORK 2020 

Galleria Continua is proud to present Man Rock I by Antony Gormley for TEFAF's New York online viewing room:

300 Masterpieces. Exclusively Online.

VIP Preview - from October 30th, 4pm CET / 3pm GMT / 11pm HKT / 10am EST

Public Days - from October 30th, 4pm CET / 3pm GMT / 11pm HKT / 10am EST to October 31st

You will be able to access Galleria Continua''s Online Viewing Room here.

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?LEANDRO ERLICH

''Soprattutto''

GALLERIA CONTINUA | ROMA

Opening: 5 November 2020 | 12noon-8pm

by appointment

LEANDRO ERLICH 'Soprattutto'

To guarantee maximum safety it is compulsory to book your participation indicating the time of your visit and the number of participants: roma@galleriacontinua.com

In compliance with the measures for the containment of the contagion of Covid-19, the entrance to the exhibition will be limited.

06/11/2020 - 10/01/2021

GALLERIA CONTINUA | ROMA

The St. Regis Rome

Via Vittorio E. Orlando 3, Rome, Italy

Tel +39 3333870553 | roma@galleriacontinua.com

www.galleriacontinua.com

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 Second edition XXL Online 

 Zhanna Kadyrova presents her works at 

La 58? Biennale di Venezia "May You Live In Interesting Times"

ZHANNA KADYROVA ''Market'' 2017-2019, ceramic tiles, cement, mirror and natural stone.

Get to know our artists' biggest and best projects with exclusive content from Galleria Continua and the artists themselves. By entering into a large art installation, you enter into another world. 

The 2nd edition of Continua XXL Online presents Zhanna Kadyrova and her works "Market" 2017 - 2019 and "Second Hand" 2014 - 2019. Both are projects that have spanned a number of years; in this instance, we explore them in the context of the 58th Venice Biennale "May You Live In Interesting Times".

"Market" saw the produce of a typical street market made from stone, cement and tiles displayed in the Arsenale section of the Biennale, provoking thought around the notion of art as a tradeable commodity. "Second Hand" held in the central pavilion of the show, is a work that according to its place and circumstance changes aesthetic. Kadyrova used tiles repurposed from a Venetian hotel to make her clothes and linens, some of which, in the typical Venetian style, were hung outside.

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  5th edition XXL Online 

 MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO 

 presents 

'The Cubic Meter of Infinity

in a Mirroring Cube'

through the History of Art

MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO ''The Cubic Meter of Infinity in a Mirroring Cube'' 1966-2007, mirror, neon lights, plaster, 500 x 500 x 500 cm
& 'The Labyrinth' 1969-2007, corrugated cardboard, 2100 meters of cardboard. Installation view at GALLERIA CONTINUA, Beijing. Photo: Oak Taylor-Smith

We are honored to dedicate the 5th edition of Continua XXL Online to Michelangelo Pistoletto's work, first realized in 2008 in occasion of his exhibition at Galleria Continua / Beijing, ''The Cubic Meter of Infinity in a Mirroring Cube''. A work which found itself in the middle of a corrugated cardboard labyrinth and that created a space of infinite experience. It was Pistoletto's first solo exhibition in China; ''The Cubic Meter of Infinity'' was exhibited amongst new pieces while the exhibition managed to offer a wide and retrospective view of Pistoletto's career and his influence in contemporary art. 

The work, made up of 6 sheets of mirror, belongs to the ''Minus Objects'' of 1965-1966, a series which is seen as essential for the birth of Arte Povera. A new manifestation of the artist's deeply developed use of the mirrored surface, the cube is the vessel for the ultimate placement of the viewer between what he has before him and what he has behind him, the past being transformed to the future. 

Continua XXL Online is an exclusive presentation of some of our artists' biggest projects. Featuring previously unseen content from Galleria Continua and artists as well as in depth information and insight into production, Continua XXL Online becomes a comprehensive experience in understanding large installations and artworks.

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COMING SOON

MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO

''Messo a nudo''

Galleria Continua / San Gimignano

Opening: 26 September 2020

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   9th edition XXL Online  

  Leandro Erlich: The Magician 

LEANDRO ERLICH ''B?timent'' 2004, print, mirror, 800 x 600 x 1200 cm. Photo: Leandro Erlich Studio

Continua XXL Online is an exclusive presentation of some of our artists' biggest projects. Featuring previously unseen content from Galleria Continua and artists as well as in depth information and insight into production, Continua XXL Online is a comprehensive experience in understanding large installations and artworks.

For this edition, we present Leandro Erlich: The Magician. Working with Leandro Erlich brings to mind many words: architect, actor, trompe-oil. One thing is for sure, he succeeds in creating a landscape in which our ordinary world is turned extraordinary. A playground where we can get to know each other, surpass boundaries that lie within the parameters of our society and live out our commonly shared fears and dreams.

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On view:

LEANDRO ERLICH

''Soprattutto''

Galleria Continua / Roma

05/11/2020 - 10/01/2021

The St. Regis Rome

Via Vittorio Emanuele Orlando 3, Roma

roma@galleriacontinua.com

Coming soon:

LEANDRO ERLICH

1st Jinan International Biennial ''POWER OF HARMONY''

Shandong Art Museum and Jinan Art Museum, Jinan, China

12/12/2020 - 31/03/2021

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Portrait of Michelangelo Pistoletto in front of ''Division and multiplication of white walls'', 2018.
Photo by: Oak Taylor-Smith

Art Basel Online Viewing Room ''OVR: 2020''

Art Basel's Online Viewing Rooms, dedicated to works created in 2020, are now live!

Galleria Continua is pleased to present Michelangelo Pistoletto''s new group of mirror paintings called MESSANUDO.?

To view and inquire about available works, visit our Online Viewing Room here .

VIP Preview runs through September 25, 12 noon CET / 6am ET / 6pm HKT, followed by Public days until September 26, 12 midnight CET / 6pm ET / September 27, 6am HKT.?

Galleria Continua will also host an exclusive live streaming interview with Michelangelo Pistoletto and one of our founders Lorenzo Fiaschi in the San Gimignano gallery space. The event will take place on September 25, 6pm CET / 12pm ET / 12am HKT.

Visit Galleria Continua''s Instagram page here.

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QIU ZHIJIE

''Lectures''

December 10th, 2020 - February 26th, 2021

GALLERIA CONTINUA / Beijing

#8503, Dashanzi 798 Art Factory, 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang Dst.

100015 Beijing, China

Tel. +86 1059789505 | beijing@galleriacontinua.cn

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  Fourth edition XXL Online 

 JR 

 presents 

'GIANTS, PEEKING AT THE CITY,

HAVANA, CUBA'

JR 'GIANTS, PEEKING AT THE CITY, HAVANA, CUBA' 2019, inkjet print on pasted paper, site specific dimensions. Photo: Nestor Kim

Continua XXL Online is an exclusive presentation of some of our artists' biggest projects. Featuring previously unseen content from Galleria Continua and artists as well as in depth information and insight into production, Continua XXL Online becomes a comprehensive experience in understanding large installations and artworks.

The 4th edition of Continua XXL Online presents JR and his work "GIANTS, PEEKING AT THE CITY, HAVANA, CUBA", a huge paste up of a little boy, Alain, who lives in Havana and who met the artist by chance when they were looking at the location for an eventual work to be pasted on the outside wall of ARTE CONTINUA.  

Invited by Galleria Continua for the 13th Havana Biennial, JR created this work in April 2019. It incorporates many different perspectives, that of a little boy who plays every day in the square of the neighborhood as well as that of the city as a whole. The boy is "peeking" out over the city and towards the sea, the horizon and far-away lands, demonstrating the position of Havana in Cuba as an island nation, separated from the rest of the world yet open to new influences and outlooks.

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COMING SOON

JR

'Omelia Contadina'

Galleria Continua / San Gimignano

Opening: 26 September 2020

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GALLERIA CONTINUA presents our Artists' events for July 2020.

SERSE - Serse's Studio, Trieste, Italy. 2020

SERSE

solo show

'Qui tutto e` aperto. Fogli d'Acqua'

GALLERIA CONTINUA | ROMA

The St. Regis Rome

Via Vittorio E. Orlando 3, Rome, Italy

10/07/2020 - 13/09/2020

With a new series of large works, Serse approaches the seemingly insurmountable task of recognizably representing an element that by its nature is transient and dynamic, constantly changing form, reflection and direction. Serse accomplishes this research through the concrete materiality of the graphite, a medium that, to use the artist's words, enables him to emphasize the tautological gesture of drawing and to produce a work that does not lie about its nature as pure drawing.

ARMANDO TESTA  ''Invito al Party'' 1980. Photo: Fabio Mantegna

ARMANDO TESTA

solo show

'Le Sirene di Armando Testa'

GALLERIA CONTINUA | SAN GIMIGNANO

Via del Castello, 11

11/07/2020 - 09/08/2020

The world we live in is a world of images that will become increasingly intense and on which the public will play in order to approach them and relive them in multiple ways. This is the future of man who is bombarded with images. (Armando Testa, 1980)

DANIEL BUREN 

solo show

'Illuminare lo spazio - lavori in situ e situati'

GAMeC

Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo

Palazzo della Ragione, Sala delle Capriate

Bergamo, Italy

09/07/2020 - 01/11/2020

Presentation live streaming

9 July 2020 | 11:30am

https://gamec.it/daniel-buren-per-bergamo/

In the summer venue of the GAMeC, Daniel Buren's solo show takes on a new meaning for one of the worst affected areas of the pandemic, as a sign of reawakening and rebirth. The exhibition examines the key points in the artist's research and career as well as his most recent concern with light; Buren's luminous fabrics will be presented here for the first time in an Italian museum.

DANIEL BUREN Photo-souvenir: Dahlia, ?le-de-France, 2007 ? Daniel Buren - ADAGP Paris

DANIEL BUREN 

'6 Bouquets pour Conflans-Sainte-Honorine' 2020, travail in situ

Esplanade de l'H?tel de ville

Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France

10/07/2020 - 31/10/2020

SABRINA MEZZAQUI 'Eternit? (La Regina delle Nevi)' 2011

SABRINA MEZZAQUI

group exhibition

STRAPERETANA 2020 - produttori di silenzio, arte contemporanea nella porta d''Abruzzo

Pereto (AQ)

Italy

18/07/2020 - 16/08/2020

For the 4th edition of Straperetana, conceived by Paola Capata and Delfo Durante and curated by Saverio Verini, works from 21 artists will be dotted around the small village Pereto in Abruzzo, creating a kind of artistic and spatial dialogue with historic buildings, small alleyways and humble dwellings. This year's edition is called "Produttori di silenzio", taking its inspiration from the writer Giorgio Manganelli's expression, who in 1987 defined Abruzzo as a "great producer of silence". 

SHILPA GUPTA 'I live under your sky' 2011

SHILPA GUPTA

Outdoor solo project

'I Live Under Your Sky Too'

City of Boston

USA

31/07/2020 - 30/09/2021

This work, realized from 2004 - 2013, is an animated light installation which flashes between English, Hindi and Urdu with the words "I live under your sky too". It's a work which highlights the possibility that exists for the coming together of diverse people and it will be displayed in a public space in Boston, Massachusetts from the end of July to the end of August 2020.

LORIS CECCHINI '?graph reliefs (straw 4515C)' 2019. Photo: Duccio Benvenuti - Art Store

LORIS CECCHINI

group exhibition

'N O T H I N G N E S S'

WhiteSpaceBlackBox

Neuch?tel, Switzerland

05/07/2020 - 29/11/2020

https://www.whitespaceblackbox.com/

This exhibition explores the concept of nothingness by asking questions such as what does time tell us? What's behind our galaxies? And what is better than more-and-more? The works by 9 artists, including Loris Cecchini, attempt to offer the space for dialogue around such questions and provide a point from which to consider the world we are living in.

NARI WARD 'Untold' 2013. Photo: Oak Taylor-Smith

''NARI WARD: WE THE PEOPLE''

solo show

MCA

Denver, USA

01/07/2020 - 20/09/2020

Nari Ward: We the People will feature a selection of sculptures, paintings, videos, and large-scale installations from throughout Ward's career, highlighting his status as one of the most important and influential sculptors working today.

NARI WARD ''LAZARUS Beacon'' 2020. Photo: Orange Barrel Media

NARI WARD

public art project

Denver, USA

01/07/2020 - 20/09/2020

MCA Denver and Orange Barrel Media partner in an ambitious public art project by Nari Ward on 38 outdoor digital screens visible throughout downtown Denver; major new work, LAZARUS Beacon (2020) to be projected on 325' tall clocktower.

KADER ATTIA 'Reflecting Memory' 2016, installation view, "Participation Mystique", Ming contemporary art Museum

KADER ATTIA

group exhibition

'Participation Mystique'

McaM Ming contemporary art Museum

Shanghai, China

27/06/2020 - 06/09/2020

http://www.mcam.io

The title of the exhibition comes from Lucien L?vy-Bruhl's study "How Natives Think" from 1910, in which he controversially divided societal cognitive processes into "primitive" or "civilized", the former being used to describe those who couldn't decipher between natural and supernatural. Bringing together 14 international artists, the works in this exhibition allude to psychoanalytic theories that consider shared unconsciousness and man's connection to imagined fantasies.

LORIS CECCHINI 'Gaps (Bookshelf) II' 2018. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio

LORIS CECCHINI

solo show

'2020'

Song Art Museum

Beijing, China

20/06/2020 - 30/08/2020

Loris Cecchini presents his solo show '2020' at the Song Art Museum, a museum planned and set up by Mr. Wang Zhongjun that aims to support and help the development of Chinese art as well as to collaborate with international artists and their projects.

GIOVANNI OZZOLA 'Garage - sometimes you can see much more' 2009-2011

GIOVANNI OZZOLA

group show

'One Water Art World'

Forsun Foundation

Shanghai, China

05/05/2020 - 07/09/2020

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Lorenzo, Mario and Maurizio invite you 

for a weekend of ART in Tuscany

26-27 September 2020

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Saturday 26 September 2020

GALLERIA CONTINUA | San Gimignano

9am:

starting from Duomo

JR & Alice Rohrwacher "Processione Om?lia Contadina"

11am/11pm:

solo shows opening in Galleria Continua

Daniel Buren, JR and Michelangelo Pistoletto

ARTE ALL''ARTE TOUR  | San Gimignano & Poggibonsi

3pm:

San Gimignano 

Anish Kapoor, Joseph Kosuth, Kiki Smith

5pm:

Poggibonsi 

Antony Gormley, Mimmo Paladino 

Sunday 27 September 2020

Palazzo Pretorio | Colle di Val d'Elsa

10am:

Inauguration of the permanent re-installation of "Concrete Blocks" by Sol LeWitt 

Tenuta Casenuove | Panzano in Chianti

First Edition "Le Radici dell'Arte"

Project curated by Galleria Continua

12 noon:

Panzano in Chianti

Loris Cecchini

1pm:

Casenuove di Panzano

Pascale Marthine Tayou

Sun Yuan & Peng Yu in collaboration with the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo

the exhibitions will be open until 7pm

Link Invitation GALLERIA CONTINUA | 26 September

Link Invitation ARTE ALL''ARTE TOUR | 26-27 September

Link Invitation CASENUOVE PANZANO | 27 September

To guarantee maximum safety it is compulsory to book your participation in the events: rsvp@galleriacontinua.com - rsvp@arteallarte.org

In compliance with the measures for the containment of the contagion of Covid-19, the entrance to the exhibitions will be limited.

More info:

www.galleriacontinua.com - www.arteallarte.org - www.tenuta-casenuove.com

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Cuban energies in art

Online Viewing Room Now Open

''El mejor modo de decir, es hacer'' - Jos? Mart?

YOAN CAPOTE 'Autorretrato (estudio de resistencia)' 2019, bronze, concrete, 167 x 39 x 39 cm. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio

This is the first viewing room in a series that will explore the many locations of Galleria Continua through the artists and works that come from some of these exciting places. Different cultures, varied points of view and common human emotions will be shared through the perspective of a nation or culture and its art. 

''Cuban energies in art'' looks at Galleria Continua's relationship with Cuba while also allowing an insight into its history and culture. 

GALLERIA CONTINUA Habana opened in 2015 with the intention of connecting people through art and presenting Cuba's artists to the world. Cultivating understanding between people and cultures has been important since the opening of the space and this viewing room is a testimony to the friendships and professional and personal experiences we have shared, and will continue to share, with Cuban artists. With works from 10 artists Alejandro Campins, Iv?n Capote, Yoan Capote, Elizabet Cervi?o, Carlos Garaicoa, Osvaldo Gonz?lez, Luis L?pez-Ch?vez, Jos? Mes?as, Susana Pilar and Jos? Yaque, this viewing room will transport you to distant shores where understanding and connection awaits us. 

VISIT THE VIEWING ROOM

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?SERSE

''Qui tutto ? aperto. Fogli d'Acqua''

GALLERIA CONTINUA | ROMA

Serse's Studio, Trieste, Italy. 2020

10 July to 13 September

From Tuesday to Saturday 11am - 7pm *

GALLERIA CONTINUA | ROMA

The St. Regis Rome

Via Vittorio E. Orlando 3, Rome, Italy

Tel +39 3333870553 | roma@galleriacontinua.com

www.galleriacontinua.com

With a new series of large works, Serse approaches the seemingly insurmountable task of recognizably representing an element that by its nature is transient and dynamic, constantly changing form, reflection and direction.

Serse accomplishes this research through the concrete materiality of the graphite, a medium that, to use the artist's words, enables him to emphasize the tautological gesture of drawing and to produce a work that does not lie about its nature as pure drawing.

?ARMANDO TESTA

''Le Sirene di Armando Testa''

GALLERIA CONTINUA | SAN GIMIGNANO

Armando Testa ''Invito al Party'' 1980

Opening: 11 July 2020 | 10am - 7pm

11.07 - 09.08.2020

By appointment * 

GALLERIA CONTINUA | SAN GIMIGNANO

Via del Castello 11, San Gimignano, Italy

Tel +39 0577943134 | sangimignano@galleriacontinua.com

www.galleriacontinua.com

The world we live in is a world of images that will become increasingly intense and on which the public will play in order to approach them and relive them in multiple ways. This is the future of man who is bombarded with images. (Armando Testa, 1980)

As stated by Germano Celant, Testa introduces beings with complex and unknown origins that arise from the mixing of bodies and that move between linguistic territories into his artistic poetics. Composite and supernatural creatures, such as mermaids and centaurs, serve to create a chimeric and seductive atmosphere.

*To guarantee maximum safety it is necessary to book your visit to the exhibition.

In compliance with the measures for the containment of the contagion of Covid-19, the entrance to the exhibition will be limited.

Visits are always conducted in respect of local and national health regulations and are by appointment only.

For San Gimignano contact: sangimignano@galleriacontinua.com

For Roma contact: ceciliap@galleriacontinua.com

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Art is made in experience not in representation

Antony Gormley 'LOST HORIZON II' 2017, bungee cord, site specific dimensions. ? the Artist.
Installation view at Galleria Continua, San Gimignano. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio

XXL Online is a new initiative that celebrates Galleria Continua artists'' largest works and installations that have been conceived for our big spaces or special events. During these unusual and uncertain times, we have decided to take you back, with this new digital experience, to some of the biggest and best moments from our artists. Entering into a large art installation is like entering into another world. The artist, aware of this, uses the scale of the medium to convey an important and life-changing message as well as a memorable encounter.

For this first edition of XXL Online, Antony Gormley presents ''LOST HORIZON II" (2017), an installation that was the principle feature of the exhibition "CO-ORDINATE" at Galleria Continua / San Gimignano, Italy in 2017. The exhibition "CO-ORDINATE" takes its name from the coordination of mind and body in the everyday act of walking and looked to explore the linear mapping of space in its internal, perceptual and architectural capacities. More specifically, ''LOST HORIZON II'' (2017), centred the co-ordination of all perceptions in the negotiation of an environment, creating an interactive zone that invited physical exploration, movement of the body and made the viewer the protagonist of the installation. 

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How do I get from here to there given there are things in my way?

I think this physical engagement with the work is very important and is actually essential.

This work is inscribed in time as much as it is in space. 

''LOST HORIZON II'' is an example of this, the opening up of the space of art as a field of co-production in which the beholder's share and the artist's share are equal.

Antony Gormley

(interview May 2017)

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Michelangelo Pistoletto 'La fecondazione' 1973-1975, photographs on transparent film, 200 x 160 cm.
Courtesy: the artist. Photo: Paolo Pellion di Persano

Galleria Continua is delighted to announce its participation in Art Basel's second iteration of Online Viewing Rooms, a digital platform designed to connect galleries and collectors from around the world.

You can access Galleria Continua''s Online Viewing Room here.

Celebrating thirty years this year, Galleria Continua remains faithful to the belief that art is a field of relations and encounters in continuous evolution. Continua is committed to making art through shared moments of exchange that are capable of taking over space, time and human thought, no matter how challenging it might be. Making Art means sharing a path together, in which every step is a celebration of what has been done and the energy to look forward.

Our Viewing Room will feature, among others, Kader Attia, Daniel Buren, Yoan Capote, Shilpa Gupta,  Hans Op de Beeck, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Qiu Zhijie.

Art Basel's Online Viewing Rooms will open with a VIP Preview from June 17, 1pm CET / 7am ET / 7pm HKT to June 19, 1pm CET / 7am ET / 7pm HKT, followed by Public days through June 26, 1pm CET / 7am ET / 7pm HKT. 

See the works here: Galleria-Continua-The-Joy-of-Art.pdf

Michelangelo Pistoletto in front of 'Il presente - Autoritratto in camicia' 1961.

Galleria Continua will also present two exclusive live streaming events, especially conceived for this occasion: 

The Epiphany of the Mirror paintings with Michelangelo Pistoletto

The celebrated Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of the leading figures of Arte Povera, will speak about his beginnings as a young artist. He will describe the genesis of the mirror works that marked a crucial shift in his successful career. It is a unique opportunity to interact with one of the most important Masters of the 20th century.

In Michelangelo Pistoletto's work, mirrors constitute an image of the world, both of humans and society, and of cosmic space. ''It seems clear to me that the space in which this reflection takes place is neither limited nor exclusively individual, but is the cosmic space of totality and, therefore, of everyone''. (Michelangelo Pistoletto)

"When, in 1961, I began to paint my face on a black ground polished to the point of being a mirror, I saw it coming towards me, standing out in the space of an environment in which everything was moving, and I was shocked. I also realized I no longer had to look at myself in another mirror, but that I could copy myself by looking directly into the canvas". (Michelangelo Pistoletto). 

Hans Op de Beeck 'The Horseman' 2020, life sized sculpture, work in progress.

The Horseman and other stories with Hans Op de Beeck

Hans Op de Beeck presents his newest creations especially conceived  for his exhibition at Galleria Continua; an intimate tour at the artist's studio and words about the pieces with Mario Cristiani and Hans Op de Beeck.

The event will take place in live streaming on the 20th of June, at 11:00 am CET. 

To join the event on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/5208474827

To join the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/galleriacontinua

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  Happy Holidays and Happy New Year

2021 is yet to be written but what is certain is that we will all look at the world with new eyes.

Hug, shake hands, kiss, take part: these are all verbs that have come to mind this year, the first things we want to do as soon as we can.

We thank everyone: artists, museums, foundations, curators, collectors, journalists, art lovers and the team of Galleria Continua, for the support and energy throughout 2020, that has helped everyone to keep going, carry on and Continua! 

*Image caption: Shilpa Gupta, ''I want to live with no Fear'', 2010-ongoing, digital print on archival paper, 42x56 cm | 16.53x22.04 in

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